Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols, born in 1942, is an American film critic and theoretician who founded contemporary documentary film studies.
His groundbreaking 1991 book Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary first applied modern film theory to documentaries, inspiring numerous subsequent works.
His two-volume anthology Movies and Methods (1976, 1985) helped establish film studies as an academic discipline.
Nichols served as Professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University, where he is now Professor Emeritus, and chairs the Documentary Film Institute advisory board.
His expertise spans contemporary American and foreign film.
